A Sampling of Clips for 
November 26, 2003

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Burned Firefighter Heads Home For Holiday
San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 25-Waving a bandaged hand, a Novato, Calif., Fire Department captain who was critically burned last month while trying to protect a home in the devastating Cedar Fire left a San Diego hospital Tuesday in time to make it home for Thanksgiving. Doug McDonald said "thank you" but did not otherwise speak as fellow firefighters rolled him on a gurney out of the front doors of the University of California, San Diego Medical Center. (Quote by Dan Lozano M.D., director of the UCSD Medical Center's burn clinic.)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/11/25/state1937EST0123.DTL

Same article appeared in:
NBCSandiego.com, Nov. 25
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/2665086/detail.html

San Jose Mercury News, Nov. 25
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/7349269.htm

San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 26
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/fires/20031125-1637-ca-wildfires-firefighter.html

KRON, Nov. 26
http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1540644&nav=5D7lJL81

Bush's Medicare Win Gives Democrats Little Political Room to Maneuver
San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 25-When Bush signs the legislation passed by the Senate Tuesday, Democrats will find it hard to complain that Republicans ignore seniors who have to choose between buying food or medicine. Their objections will be limited to details of Bush's plan, not the absence of one. (Quote by Gary Jacobson, political scientist at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/11/25/national1635EST0663.DTL

Same article appeared in:
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 25
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20031125-1527-medicare-politics.html

San Jose Mercury News, Nov. 25
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/7348555.htm

Similar article appeared in:
NBC4.com, Nov. 25
http://www.nbc4.com/healtharchives/2662758/detail.html

Teaching Assistants Say they'll Strike
Oakland Tribune, Nov. 26-Teaching assistants, paper readers and tutors at the University of California are planning to strike next week to protest what they say are unfair labor practices and bad-faith bargaining by administrators. UC officials said they have contingency plans in place to ensure that instruction and other university operations won't be disrupted during the strike, which will start sometime between Dec. 1 and Dec. 5 -- the last full week of instruction before final exams begin at most campuses. (Quote by Chuong-Dai Vo, a UAW bargaining team member from UC San Diego.)
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1726~1791742,00.html#

Gephardt Shifts Focus to Minority Communities
Los Angeles Times, Nov. 26-Expanding the scope of his domestic agenda, Rep. Richard A. Gephardt proposed a series of measures Tuesday that would shift federal spending toward minority communities in an effort to increase opportunities that he said "for too long have been denied for too many." (Quote by John D. Skrentny, a sociology professor at UC San Diego.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gephardt26nov26,1,92326.story

Buried Measure
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 25-A tree falls in a forest. A building creaks. A man's heart skips a beat. Most of the time, these events go unnoticed, though each may be meaningful, each causing a cascade of consequences. Although it is almost impossible, to watch, record and respond to everything every moment of every day and night, the ways we can record events is changing as the technologies of embedded networks mature and evolve. What happens next will have consequences for science, medicine and everyday life. (Cites current research by Dan Cayan, a climatologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_1c26sensors.html

Governor's Plan Takes Flak from Democrats
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 26-A new state spending limit proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday was hit with a cross fire of criticism, raising doubt about whether the Legislature will meet a deadline late next week for putting the governor's budget plan on the March ballot. (Quote by University of California President Robert Dynes, former UCSD Chancellor.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/news/news_1n26budget.html